Dagloners: 'n Gevallestudie van die kwesbaarheid van die maatskaplike bestel en samehorigheid in Suid-Afrika se informele ekonomie

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is tans professor en gegradeerde navorser in die Departement Maatskaplike Werk aan die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap (UWK). Voordat sy by UWK begin werk het, was sy 25 jaar aan Unisa en 6 jaar aan die Universiteit van Pretoria (UP) verbonde. Haar navorsing is gerig op armoede, werkloosheid en in besonder op die persone wat 'n bestaan probeer maak in die informele ekonomie. Professor Schenck en haar navorsingspan gee veral aandag aan die dagloners en vullisherwinners. Sy het reeds wyd in nasionale en internasionale tydskrfte gepubliseer oor die bepaalde onderwerp. DeRick Blaauw is 'n professor in die Skool vir Ekonomiese Wetenskappe aan die Noordwes-Universiteit (Potchefstroom-kampus). Voor sy huidige pos het hy ekonomie aan die Universiteit van Johannes burg (UJ) gedoseer asook aan die Randse Afri kaanse Universiteit (RAU) en die Soweto-en Bloemfontein-kampusse van Vista Universiteit. Professor Blaauw se navorsing is hoofsaaklik op arbeids-en ontwikkelingsekonomie gerig. Sy huidige werk is toegespits op die sosio-ekonomiese dinamika van kwesbare groepe in die informele ekonomie, insluitend karwagte, Rinie Schenck is professor and rated researcher in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Prior to UWC she lectured at Unisa for 25 years and 6 years at the University of Pretoria (UP). Her research focus is on poverty, unemployment and in particular on people who are making a living in the informal economy, including day labourers and waste pickers. She has published extensively in national and international journals.

The vulnerability of day labourers in South Africa and the role of community development in an integrated approach to achieving sustainable livelihoods

“…The effects of the disrupted lives of families that the literature reveals have extremely adverse consequences for the lives of both day labourers and their families (Xweso 2019;Mapandere et al 2019). Schenck and Blaauw (2018) contend that the social fabric of the families of day labourers is subjected to tremendous pressure and sometimes unravels. They found that 26 percent of the day labourers in their research sample were married with children and did not earn sufficient income from their daily work to afford to take care of themselves and their dependants.…”